provide (almost) automatic creation of type records in database

scopes/storage/concept.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class Concept(Track):
 class Concepts(Container):
 
     insertOnChange = False
+    indexes = None
  
 
 class Predicate(Concept):
@@ -69,3 +70,15 @@ class Types(Concepts):
     itemFactory = Type
     indexes = [('name',), ('tprefix',)]
     tableName = 'types'
+
+
+def storeType(storage, cls, name):
+    types = storage.create(Types)
+    types.save(Type(name, cls.prefix))
+    storage.commit()
+
+def setupCoreTypes(storage):
+    for c in registry.values():
+        cls = c.itemFactory
+        storeType(storage, cls, cls.__name__.lower())
+

tests/tlib_storage.py

@@ -77,16 +77,16 @@ def test_folder(self, config):
 def test_type(self, config):
         storage = config.storageFactory(config.dbschema)
         storage.dropTable('types')
-        types = storage.create(concept.Types)
-        ttype = concept.Type('type', concept.Type.prefix)
-        ttid = types.save(ttype)
-        self.assertEqual(ttid, 1)
-        tps = list(ttype.values())
-        self.assertEqual(len(tps), 1)
+        concept.setupCoreTypes(storage)
 
-        tfolder = concept.Type('folder', folder.Folder.prefix)
-        tfid = types.save(tfolder)
+        types = storage.getContainer(concept.Type.prefix)
+        tps = list(types.query())
+        self.assertEqual(len(tps), 5)
+        self.assertEqual(tps[0].name, 'track')
+
+        tfolder = types.queryLast(name='folder')
         fldrs = list(tfolder.values())
         self.assertEqual(len(fldrs), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(fldrs[0].name, 'top')
 
         storage.commit()